17.
What else is there which you would regret to have taken from you?
Friends?
But who can be a friend to you?
Country?
What?
Do you think enough of your country to be late to dinner?
The light of the sun?
You would extinguish it, if you could; for what have you ever done that was fit to be seen in the light?
Confess the truth; it is not because you long for the senate chamber or the forum, or even for the world of nature, that you would fain put off dying; it is because you are loth to leave the fish-market, though you have exhausted its stores.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On taking one's own life
Location: Chapter 77, Section 17
Content:
17.
What else is there which you would regret to have taken from you?
Friends?
But who can be a friend to you?
Country?
What?
Do you think enough of your country to be late to dinner?
The light of the sun?
You would extinguish it, if you could; for what have you ever done that was fit to be seen in the light?
Confess the truth; it is not because you long for the senate chamber or the forum, or even for the world of nature, that you would fain put off dying; it is because you are loth to leave the fish-market, though you have exhausted its stores.